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Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

The deadliest diving spot in the world is also a stunning geological marvel.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

A thousand years old and the largest of its kind in the world.

In a past life this steamboat hauled rubber and passengers up and down the Amazon.

This iron building in the Amazon allegedly shares an architect with the Eiffel Tower.

In the desert of southern Peru is an intriguing collection of ancient petroglyphs whose origins remain unknown.

A lookout spot for the Andean condor, at the edges of one of the deepest canyons in the world.

Once the largest source of mercury in the Americas, these ruins earned the name “Mine of Death.”

This outdoor sculpture gallery is a modern-day homage to Andean culture and history.

This archaeological site features an early version of today’s refrigerators.

The Peruvian Andes are a center of hummingbird diversity, and this garden offers an opportunity to see more than 30 species of hummingbirds.

Haunted by its violent past, this colonial bastion was the largest Spanish military installation in the Americas.

A 5,000-year-old city in Peru holds the remains of a stunning set of astronomically-aligned pyramids.

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

This archaeological museum in one of Peru’s most intriguing regions exhibits ancient artifacts from the Nazca civilization.

Stroll among dozens of statues depicting pre-Columbian kings, gods, and supernatural beings.

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.

Mysterious "dots" seen from a satellite in southeast Peru.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.